Recovery Q&A With Jean from Unpickled Blog
Up next in our Top Recovery Blogger Series we have Jean from Unpickled Blog. Jean is a busy woman with a fulfilling life, but it wasn’t always that way. Before deciding to live alcohol-free seven years ago, Jean was in a decades-long cycle of daily drinking that was taking over her life. Today Jean is […]
Changing Addictive Behavior: The Perils and Promise of Perfectionism
By Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. For many, perfectionism is a guilty pleasure – we know it isn’t good for us but we can’t seem to let it go. Well, difficulty in letting something go is almost always a sign of that thing being beneficial in some ways, and perfectionism is no different. When it comes to […]
What Experts Are Saying About Outpatient Rehab
by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. Outpatient Rehab: What the Experts Say Anyone who encounters the US addiction treatment industry is likely to experience a ‘hard sell’ on inpatient. The idea that addiction problems are resolved by ‘going away for 30 days’ is as pervasive as it is uninformed. Lasting change may be initiated in four weeks, […]
The Worst Advice We’ve Ever Heard About Quitting Drinking
Thinking about quitting drinking? Here’s some advice you might not want to follow. There is an abundance of advice about quitting drinking out there that conspicuously lacks the hallmarks of thought and wisdom. Advice itself can often be a sign of unsophisticated “help.” While there are likely many more witless ideas about quitting drinking than this […]
Recovery from Addiction: Confronting Complacency
by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. Few would argue against complacency’s tendency to erode the foundations of change. Most of us experience the lull that can follow a flurry of effort and progress. We lose steam, let our guard down, relax, and suddenly find ourselves slipping back into the very patterns we are trying to break – […]
Persistence in Life and Recovery
Persistence in Life and Recovery So we are now about two weeks into the New Year. That’s long enough that the great enthusiasm we had for our 2018 goals has dimmed a bit, or worse. So now what? Life is a continuing challenge of balancing short-term and long-term satisfactions, as SMART Recovery’s 4th Point, Lifestyle […]
The Goal of Addiction Treatment Completely Misses the Mark
The Entire Aim of Addiction Treatment is Off by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. The goal of nearly the entire field of addiction treatment is to help people stop using substances forever. However, a closer look at the goal of stopping forever reveals fatal flaws. This article aims to expose the flaws in the goal of stopping […]
Addiction and Society: Snowflakes and a Culture of Outrage
Snowflakes and Addiction: A Culture of Outrage by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. In today’s culture of outrage everything seems to be offensive to someone. The term ‘snowflake’ is generally viewed as derogatory and refers to people who are entitled, genuinely distressed by ideas that run contrary to their worldview, and carry an inflated sense of their […]
Mushroom Therapy for Addiction Treatment
Mushroom Therapy for Addiction Treatment by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. Psilocybin: The Magic in the Mushroom Empirical research supporting the therapeutic benefits of psilocybin (the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms”) just keeps piling up. The idea of mushroom therapy for addiction treatment may sound like a pipe dream espoused by someone named Moonbeam on hippie-hill in Golden […]
Recovery from Addiction: Self-Control
Recovery from Addiction The Coordinates to Self-Control in Recovery by Thaddeus Camlin, Psy.D. Self-control is treated like a four-letter word in some recovery circles. Many people in the process of changing a problematic pattern of behavior are told their only hope is to give up control, even self-control in recovery. The truth is that every […]